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Rum Journal: A Spice Cocktail in Grenada

THE MOMENT you step outside of the airport in Grenada, you’re welcomed by the sweet smell of spice. Grenada is one of the world’s top exporters of mace and nutmeg, and their wonderful aroma pervades much of the island. The […]

IDB, CDB Sign $20M Agreement For Projects in Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia

Above: Dominica (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Inter-American Bank and the Caribbean Development Bank have signed a $20 million agreement for a global loan programme for projects in four Organization of Eastern Caribbean States countries. The loan […]

Canada’s Diane Ablonczy Begins Seven-Country Caribbean Tour

Above: Minister Diane Ablonczy By the Caribbean Journal staff Canada’s Minister of State of Foreign Affairs, Diane Ablonczy, has begun a seven-day, seven-country trip to the Caribbean. Ablonczy is currently in the Bahamas, which she will visit along with St […]

CJ Pick: Lobster Alive in Barbados

IT MIGHT BE the ideal Caribbean restaurant: fresh lobster, live music and sand beneath your feet. It all makes Lobster Alive in Barbados a CJ favourite. The restaurant gets its lobster flown in (“alive”) by a private plane from Bequia […]

Haiti’s Martelly Among Caribbean Leaders at PetroCaribe Summit in Venezuela

Above: the PetroCaribe Summit (Photo: GV) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti President Michel Martelly left the country Friday to attend the PetroCaribe Summit in Venezuela, one of a number of Caribbean leaders attending this weekend’s event. Martelly and a […]

Doing Business in the Caribbean: Lessons From Singapore

By Paul Hay Op-Ed Contributor In the “Competitiveness of Small Nations: What matters?”, Densil Williams and Beverly Morgan analyze the competitive performance of Singapore, Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago under the “Global Competitiveness Report” over a period spanning 2004/5 to […]

OECS Regional Assembly to Hold First Sitting Next Week

Above: the OECS Regional Assembly in Antigua By the Caribbean Journal staff The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States Assembly will hold its first official sitting on Tuesday. The regional assembly, consists of a group of appointed government and opposition Parliamentarians […]

Op-Ed: The Privy Council Conundrum

By David Rowe Op-Ed Contributor JAMAICAN PRIME MINISTER Portia Simpson-Miller commenced her administration with a political proposal of constitutional ramifications, announcing the government’s intention to remove the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as Jamaica’s final Court of Appeal. The […]

Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez Dies

Updated: 6:44 PM Above: former Venezuela President Hugo Chavez (UN Photo/Marco Castro) By the Caribbean Journal staff Venezuela President Hugo Chavez died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer, the country’s government said. Chavez, who had received much of his […]

US Peace Corps Phasing Out of St Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda

Above: St Kitts (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The United States Peace Corps is phasing out of St Kitts and Nevis and Antigua and Barbuda due to the two countries’ reaching a “high level of development.” The Peace […]

Can Haiti Jumpstart CARICOM?

Above: Port-au-Prince (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell PORT-AU-PRINCE — At the end of last month, former Jamaican Prime Minister PJ Patterson told a meeting of the Rotary Club in Georgetown, Guyana that CARICOM was on life support. The Caribbean must […]

At St Vincent’s Buccament Bay, Learning the Art of Chocolate

Above: chocolate at Buccament Bay By the Caribbean Journal staff From St Lucia’s Boucan Hotel, Restaurant and Cocoa Plantation to the Graycliff Hotel in Nassau (which recently debuted its own chocolate factory), Caribbean hotels are increasingly upping their chocolate quotient. […]

Op-Ed: Solar Energy and the Caribbean’s Economic Future

By Paul Hay Op-Ed Contributor According to the Energy Policy and Sector Analysis in the Caribbean (2010 – 2011), the “Caribbean islands have the potential to lead the world to a new energy future.” Research on this paper was the […]

Haiti Hosts Taiwan’s Foreign Minister

Above: the Taiwan-Haiti meeting (OP Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Taiwan Foreign Minister David Yung-Lo is continuing his Caribbean tour with a trip to Haiti. The country’s top diplomat, joined by a Taiwanese delegation, met Wednesday with Haiti President […]

Taiwan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Arrives in St Kitts and Nevis

Above: Basseterre (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Taiwan Foreign Minister David Yung-lo Lin arrived in St Kitts Saturday for an official visit to the twin-island federation, following a trip to St Vincent and the Grenadines. The Taiwanese envoy […]

Eastern Caribbean Economies Contracted 0.1 Percent in 2012

Above: St Lucia By the Caribbean Journal staff Economic activity in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union fell in 2012 for the fourth consecutive year, according to Sir K Dwight Venner, President of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank. Real GDP in […]

Grenada Launches 2013 Sailing Circuit

Above: sailing in Grenada By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada’s Sailing Week Camper & Nicholsons Race Series began Thursday to kick off the major sailing season in the country. The first series, which lasts through Feb. 5, consists of four […]

Grenada Planning Yachting Push

Above: yachting in Grenada By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada is planning to strengthen the country’s yachting sector with a new $375,000 investment. The grant, which came from the Caribbean Development Bank-administered CARTfund, will go toward expanding the marine and […]

Stuart: Barbados Committed to LIAT

Above: Barbados PM Freundel Stuart (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Barbados will continue to support the operations of regional air carrier LIAT, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart said this week. The PM was speaking following a meeting at the […]

Haiti Holds Mass for Venezuela’s Chavez

Above: Venezuelan Ambassador to Haiti Pedro Antonio Canino Gonzalez, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe and President Michel Martelly (Photo: OP Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti held a special mass Friday in support of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, who is […]

S&P Lowers Credit Rating on Caribbean Development Bank; Outlook Negative

Above: Barbados, home to the CDB, is current on its obligations to the bank (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Standard & Poor’s has lowered the long-term foreign currency credit rating on the Caribbean Development Bank to “AA” from […]

Grenada Readies for Sailing Season

Above: sailing in Grenada (Photos by Grenada Board of Tourism) By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada is readying for yachting and sailing season with a full calendar of races on the waters of the tri-island state in 2013. There are […]

Caribbean Largely Votes to Support Palestine’s Upgraded Status at UN

Above: the UN General Assembly’s vote on Thursday (UN Photo/Rick Bajornas) By the Caribbean Journal staff The United Nations General Assembly voted 138-9 to accord Palestine with non-Member Observer State status, with much of the Caribbean voting in favour. There […]

LIAT Stakeholders Make Down Payment on Six New 50-Seat Planes

Above: a LIAT flight in Antigua By the Caribbean Journal staff The shareholder governments of regional air carrier LIAT have made the first down payment on six new 50-seat planes, according to St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr […]

Australia Names New High Commissioner to Trinidad, CARICOM

Above: Port of Spain By the Caribbean Journal staff Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr has announced the appointment of Ross Tysoe as the country’s next High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago. Carr will have non-resident accreditation to Antigua and Barbuda, […]

Barbados, Israel Talk Public Health

Above: Parliament in Bridgetown (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Isarel’s Ambassador to Barbados and the Caribbean Amiram Magid met Thursday with Barbados Health Minister Donville Inniss to discuss collaborations on public health, particularly the increasing regional problem of […]

Puerto Rico Tops Caribbean, St Lucia Tops CARICOM for Ease of Doing Business

Above: Puerto Rico By the Caribbean Journal staff For the second year in a row, St Lucia is the top-ranked CARICOM country for ease of doing business, according to the Doing Business 2013 Report from the World Bank. St Lucia […]

St Lucia Urges Canada to Reconsider After Removal of Visa Exemption

Above: St Lucia Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony By the Caribbean Journal staff St Lucia Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony has called the decision by Canada to remove the visa exemption for St Lucians traveling to the country an “unfortunate […]

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